6 Necessary Apps for Mac You Should Download Right Now

There are plenty of third-party apps for macOS. While there are apps that are both good and useful, there is another category of apps that is labelled as “must have” as they come with features that are not available anywhere in the OS.

In this week’s roundup we have covered six apps that you should be downloading right now on your Mac. These apps are kind of like your friends, as they tell you what’s going on your machine as well as how you can improve things.

1. Overkill

Overkill is a simple, elegant Mac app that runs in the background and makes sure iTunes never interrupts your work. It does so by killing the iTunes process each time it launches.

Runs silently in the background and kills iTunes

Easily pause Overkill if you want to use iTunes

Support for both Dark and Light mode of the menu bar

Supports auto start

Supports any Mac app, e.g. add the Photos app, to be killed also

No CPU usage, no polling, no analytics, just 300 lines of native Mac code

2. Loading

Loading is a lightweight app that lives in your menu bar and lets you know when an app starts using your network data.

Check if an app is using your network data

See list of apps that use data

View app processes using data

3. Keypad Layout

Keypad Layout allows you to control your windows using the Ctrl and numeric key combination. You can manage your windows in many ways using the app.

Control windows using Ctrl + numeric keys

Multiple grid support

4. SupaView

SupaView is a tool to help you locate big folders and big files on your hard disk. Every file is represented by a square, which size is proportional to its file size.

Locate large folders and files on your disk

Graphical view of file sizes

Easy to use

5. BeardedSpice

BeardedSpice is a menu bar application for Mac OS X that allows you to control web-based media players and some native apps with the media keys found on Mac keyboards.

Our Software Section contains these and many more apps for the Mac that let you explore a whole new world of possibilities on your machine. Check it out and let us know your thoughts. Also, let us know if there’s an app we should add to the section.